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Mike Furstenburg
10/20/08
Block 1
I was walking down a street were a lot of people have gathered around to see what was happening. I was interested enough, so I wanted to go take a look. As I got closer and closer, I could see smoke coming from a vehicle of some sort. As I approached the sight, I saw a bus that was in flames and had three black men burned to death. Many African American men and women were crying because they all knew that what if that was me on that bus. As I looked at the side of the bus, there was spray paint that said Core with a big X through it. Core was an organization that set up the first sit-ins and many other things. Just a few minutes later I see James Farmer come running over to see of what all the fuss was about. James farmer was one of the few men who was the first director of the Core association. He just stood there in disbelief of what he saw in his two eyes.. I looked into his eyes and you could see the wetness in them. You could see how scared he was in the inside, but in the outside he was very calm. The next day I hear



Works Cited

Altman, Susan. "Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)." Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2000. American History Online. Facts On File, http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?
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Bell, Inge, CORE and the Strategy of Nonviolence, 1968; Farmer, James, Freedom, When? 1966; Meier, August, CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968, 1973.
"James Farmer." American History. 2008. ABC-CLIO. 20 Oct. 2008 <http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com>.